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I don't understand. You've linked to a copy of the LGPLv2.1 in infininote's git repo. Are you saying that their choice of licence primarily caused their product to be less popular?
No, I'm saying that it precludes it from being an obvious choice for a standard, since implementing that type of protocol isn't simple and there are editor writers who don't want to integrate LGPL code.
Re: Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim
#21Surely if it's LGPL you can just link against it, no?